If you have seen this movie, go find it. I just accidentally bumped into Mad About English (我为英语狂) by Singaporean Lian Pek during late night on channel 8 and found it to be absolutely brilliant. See China and ways of learning English like you’ve never imagined before Here’s the synopsis : Since winning the bid to host the Olympics, China’s citizens have been stricken with what they call ‘ying wen re’ - …

 All good scandals come to an end. Can’t remember what this is about? Check “China : Sex, Pride and a bit about Israel” and “Is Chinabounder’s Sex and Shanghai back?!” (and maybe a lecture I gave with his casestudy on “Blogging Ethics - Anonymity Freedom of Speech vs. the Dark Side”). Sex and Shanghai’s Chinabounder (流氓外教) story was a great tale to tell about the mysteries of Chinese netizens behavior and expat-local sensitivities, but now – finally – we can …

This is quite a remarkable story of a Chinese Jewish community in Kaifeng-China. Haaretz tells their story with “Taking the Silk Route back home” (found through “Truth from Facts” in Chinalyst): Jin Jin and Nina Wang are students in Hebrew University’s preparatory program. They will soon commence their BA studies, but they already have long-term dreams. Jin wants to eventually serve as a diplomat in the Foreign Ministry. Wang hopes to use her …

People have been asking me what I think of this show, and till yesterday I didn’t get a chance to see it. “New World” is an Israeli TV show from Channel 10 and nana with the wonderful Nitzan Horovitz who tries to envision the new world we’re going into, and the first episode – yeah, you guessed it, is about China with the explosive title “The Chinese Century”. It’s really neat that all the episodes of the show were placed on the net, encouraging reader interaction : …

In the past few months I’ve had the pleasure of following a relatively new blog detailing the adventures and thoughts of one Israeli guy in China. Rane’s blog is a must read for any Israeli who’s into Chinese people and culture. It’s a cynical look into the most amusing details of cross-cultural interactions, and every post that I read makes me smile and laugh thinking “damn, that’s SO true, he’s SO right”. Hagigit, written in Hebrew, is one of my favorite reads, and so, as a tribute - I’ll really quickly translate one of the shortest posts to English, one titled “We’re both from the same village” : Chinese is a difficult language - …

I think this one is just hilarious - Bloomberg’s “China Goes Kosher as Exporters Use Rabbis to Reassure Consumers” : Chinese exporters, facing a U.S. backlash over tainted food products, are turning to an unlikely group of inspectors to help clean up their act: Jewish rabbis. Kosher certifications by rabbis have doubled to more than 300 in China in the past two years, according to the Orthodox Union, a New York-based organization that does inspections. The group expects thousands more plants to get certified in the next few years, covering everything from …